Dog sports allow your dog positively expend his energies instead of using them in unwanted behaviours. They help strengthen your dog's bond with you and this makes him more obedient. Moreover, a dog that learns and practices a canine sport, using positive training methods - without punishment - can easily become a more balanced and healthy dog both physically and psychologically.

At “Quinta dos Patudos” you can start the training and practice of 3 different canine sports: Obedience, Agility and Flyball.

We regularly organize workshops to introduce these sports and for each there is a Club with regular weekly sessions where people interested in learning, training and practicing with their dogs the modalities gather and work together.

If you want start and/or practice a dog sport (agility, obedience flyball and other sports), in group and with expert advice, you can join in one of ours "Dog Sports Clubs".

These clubs are for members of the "Quinta dos Patudos" Association, so those interested in participating should become members. In Agility Club can also participate members of the "Casa do Povo de S. Bartolomeu de Messines".

Flyball Club

This club is for those who want to practice Flyball with their dogs.

Flyball is the fastest canine sport and the only one that is practiced exclusively as a team. It is a relay race to four dogs, in a team of 6. The dogs run on a straight track, which contains four jumps and a box that dogs must engage with paws, and that throws a tennis ball.

The sessions of this club include the realization of exercises with dogs to work skills and behaviors that allow them to practice in this canine sport (jump barriers in running, fetching and retrieve a ball, learn to pull the ball from the flyball box, make the "swimmer turn" in the box ", cruising with other dogs, etc.).

The sessions of this club, have a minimum duration of 90 minutes, are weekly and take place on Saturdays (variable timetable depending on the season of year). The frequency of this club involves the payment of an additional fee of 15,00€ per month.

Agility Club

This club is intended for those who want to train and practice agility with their dogs and is a partnership between the Rural Dog Park "Quinta dos Patudos" and the Casa do Povo de S. Bartolomeu de Messines, so it can participate members of of both organizations on an equal basis..

Agility is a dog sport in which a handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy. Dogs run off leash with no food or toys as incentives, and the handler can touch neither dog nor obstacles. Consequently, the handler's controls are limited to voice, movement, and various body signals, requiring exceptional training of the animal and coordination of the handler. Agility courses include a various obstacles: jumps, tunnels, tire, passerelle, slalom, seesaw, A-frame and long jump.

This club is for those who want to start training and practice this sport with your dogs. Beyond the weekly sessions, where are held in group exercises to work the different skills required to practice this sport, they are also regularly organized formation activities (training sessions, workshops and other) guided by trainers and / or athletes external of "Quinta dos Patudos".

The sessions of this club, with a minimum duration of 90 minutes, are weekly and are held on Sundays (variable hours depending on the season of year). The frequency of this club involves the payment of an additional fee of 25,00€ per month.

Obdedience Club

This club is intended for those who want to train and practice Sports obedience with their dogs.

The Obedience is a dog sport in which obedience is taken very seriously. The dog obeys the handler performing various exercises: heelwork (walk beside the handler without a leash), retrieve objects, positions (stand, sit and down) under march and under control distance of handler, etc.. Obedience training teaches a dog how to act in a co-operative and controlled way. Emphasis should be put on establishing good contact between the dog and the handler and on achieving the dog’s willingness to obey even when at distance from the handler. Handler and dog should display a good overall relationship.

This club is for those who want to start training and practice this sport with your dogs and include weekly sessions, where are held in group exercises to work the different skills required to practice this sport.

The sessions of this club, with a durations of 90 minutes, are realized on Saturdays or Sundays (variable hours depending on the season). The frequency of this club involves the payment of a monthly additional fee of 15,00 € per month.